Businesses fight Kasich on plan for tax increase

Small rise could add up, get passed to customers

1:24 AM,
Mar. 22, 2014

Written by

Chrissie Thompson
The Cincinnati Enquirer

For Messer Construction, Gov. John Kasich's proposed change to a tiny tax could be a big problem.

The company that has built Horseshoe Casino Cincinnati, the latest Cincinnati Children's Hospital research building and much of the streetcar construction frequently handles projects that reach into the hundreds of millions. So the state's 0.26 percent tax on all business activity in Ohio adds up.

And Kasich's proposal to increase that tax to 0.3 percent would mean adding hundreds of thousands of dollars onto Messer customers' bills. ...